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Their Bizarre Education
a Bizarre Book BB - 120
a novel by Clayton Rich
illustrated by Bill Ward
Eros (Goldstripe) Publishing, Co.,
Wilmington, Delaware
1974

digital replica

In the 1970s, Eros Publishing Company launched the Bizarre Books series with diagonal Eros Goldstripe ribbons on covers. The series featured male domination and female domination themes, often with forced transvestism and fetish rituals, usually illustrated by a gifted artist.

Their Bizarre Education works as autobiography for three characters. Firstborn son of a British duke, Edgar begins his account with his comfortable childhood. He loses his parents and comes under his uncle's care. When he puts Edgar in Miss Greta's lovely hands, she introduces the young man to the sensuality of dressing in rubber, beginning his bizarre education.

She encourages him to explore the limits of pleasure, showing him adult magazines with fetish scenes. Greta teaches him to experiment, prolong his endurance, intensify sensations, imparting her considerable knowledge of sexual physiology and technique. Edgar finds all of it quite agreeable and learns to expand his world of enjoyment.

Although not of royal descent, Edwina grows up in a wealthy family. While vacationing in Spain, she meets experienced Georgina, who teaches her the pleasures of tight-lacing, high-heeled boots, snug leather clothing and lesbian caresses. Her habituation to fetish attire becomes a compulsion.

Edwina says —

Edgar and i were lucky to meet and fall in love, i think, not only because we are so well matched in every way, but also because we both have an unusual craving, which we can each satisfy in the other. Put it this way. I know that Edgar has this craving to dress in rubber, which at times can reach an awful peak of intensity. At the same time he knows all about my problem.

Myrna's life was horrible until she left the orphanage. There, she was conditioned to crave pain as prelude to sex. She developed an enjoyment for being roughly used by both males and females.

When, during her modeling career, she's tightly-corseted for the benefit of wardrobe selection for Edwina, it brings back dark memories of that cold institution and the punitive body-belt she was forced to wear when she broke the rules.

Modeling sensuous clothing for the royal couple's evaluation, Myrna observes —

Edgar had been driven to the verge of orgasm merely at the sight of me in rubber. Edwina was in much the same condition because i had been wearing leather and was still severely corseted. I was close to boiling point because I was wearing a “punishment body-belt” and those shorts . . . I don’t know how I had the nerve, but as I stood between those two aristocrats, I reached out my right hand to touch his prick, and slid my left up her miniskirt to press my fingers . . . There followed one of those frozen moments in time which seem as long as a lifetime — like drowning, when the whole of your life is supposed to pass before your eyes . . . Everyone was stiff and still.

The ebook contains
— the front cover
— all the text, 43,000 words
— 12 illustrations by the Great Bill Ward on 12 pages.

The text has been completely re-set for the ebook version. Minor editing corrects spelling and punctuation. A few sentences were revised in pursuit of correct grammar and simplicity. Illustrations depict incidents in the story and were placed in the ebook near related prose.

This novel is longer than other Bizarre Books. Many in the catalog focus on a demanding sadist. The compulsions of fetishism and the connection between pain and pleasure construct a bridge of bizarre sensuality that breathlessly bonds the three autobiographical characters. Mixing chapters by three first-person narrators works as a clever tactic to show how lives and interests intertwine.

The personalities are British and the rhetoric intends that native intonation. The writing here shows unusual intelligence from the author. He's done an excellent job of sculpting crucibles of conditioning in which these strange appetites have taken their forms. Fetish materials get appropriate sensual attention and sex-related scenes benefit from candid, first-person viewpoints. Each of the characters tells a different story and the distinctions obscure their similarity in voice.

Despite the colorful contexts, events are conformed to present scenes of wanton sensuality and abject fetishism. The carefully-crafted prose and atypical theme render this volume an exceptional entry in the series. The premise argues that conditioning creates fetish obsessions. The narratives present circumstances in which such developments are plausible. The ebook offers the most convenient mechanism for enjoying this rare artifact of 1970s fetish culture.

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